TIM Group University

I left my job at TIM Group at the end of March, after working there for a bit less than four years. I’m calling it TIM Group University, as my four years there taught me more than I can easily enumerate. Over the years I worked with a huge number of smart people, and felt like was always learning. I gave a valediction message just before I left, but I never did get to write about all the different things that I learned there. It’s a long list, and woefully incomplete, but here it goes:

No blame – trust and safety win over everything

Bring the outside in for fun and profit

How to run a root cause analysis

The five whys

Growing object oriented software, guided by tests

Daily stand up, sometimes twice daily

Pretty much every XP practice out there. Except metaphor. Scrawlings tried to show me once, but it never did catch.